It aims to bridge the communication gap between various disciplines, to discuss present and future applications of the fractal geometry, by bringing together cellular, molecular and natural biologists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, physicians and other scientists in an ambient favouring the interdisciplinary vision.

The Symposium might be relevant for the industry involved in developping and applying softwares and methods in the fields of morphometry, quantitative image analysis, stereology, nonlinear dynamics and related topics. Industrial researchers are invited to submit papers for regular platform or poster sessions.

Young participants would benefit from attending not only by listening lectures presented by invited scientists but also by presenting their current research during platform or poster communications so that the exchange of informations and ideas between different groups of researchers working in different areas of science and attracted by the fractal paradigm, will be strengthened. They are strongly encouraged to deliver a manuscript to be included in the Conference Proceedings which will be published in the new series " Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction " by the Birkhäuser Press, Basel, Boston, Berlin.

• Fractals (spatial and temporal), power law, nonlinear dynamics, complexity, self-organization and chaos in metabolic and signalling pathways, in biodegradation and in natural environment
• Fractals in biological design, angiogenesis, evolutionary pattern, morphogenesis, spatio-temporal tree structures, vessel branching
• Fractal structures, functional complexity and chaos in tumours
• Fractals in nuclei (DNA/ chromatin organization), gene expression, membranes and cell organelles during growth and death (apoptosis, necrosis)
• Fractal in connective tissue, epithelial-stromal tissue interface, tissue-remodeling, biopolymers
• Fractals in pathologic states of brain, nervous and cardiac tissue
• Fractals of immunologic response and in autoimmune, aging and chronic diseases
• Fractals in biomedical engineering,pattern recognition,radiological, sonographic and ultrasonic image analysis

Organization
Attendance: is limited to 80-100 participants

Authors’schedule
Information on your participation to the Symposium and indication of the topic of your paper: January 31, 2000
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 20, 2000.
Notification of acceptance February 27, 2000

Prof.Dr.Theo F.Nonnenmacher, co-chairman
Abteilung für Mathematische Physik,
University Ulm, 89069-Ulm , Germany
phone: +49-731-5022990; fax: 731-5023003; e-mail: non@physik.uni-ulm.de

Prof. Dr. Danilo Merlini
Centro di Ricerca in Fisica e Matematica,
v.F.Rusca 1, 6600 Locarno, Switzerland
phone:+41-91-7516424; fax:+41-91-7516425; e-mail: merlini@cerfim.ch

Prof. Dr. Em.Ewald R.Weibel.
Maurice E.Mueller Foundation, University Bern
3000 Bern, Switzerland
phone: +41-31-3820031: fax: +41-31-3823087; e-mail: weibel@mem.unibe.ch

Celebration of Benoit Mandelbrot's 75 th Birthday

Public Conference by Prof. Benoit Mandelbrot

FRACTALS'JOURNEY.FROM ART BACK TO ART THROUGH MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE.

Salone Palazzo SOPRACENERINA

Piazza Grande, Locarno

FRIDAY 10, 8.30 pm: Fractal Dinner with musical entertainement at the Restaurant in Monte Verità.

SATURDAY 11, afternoon: visit (for interested people) to the new Academy of Architecture at the University of the Italian Switzerland, Mendrisio. Meeting with Prof.s Mario Botta and Aurelio Galfetti, architects.

G.A.Losa,T.F.Nonnenmacher, D.Merlini, E.R.Weibel.
Fractals in Biology and Medicine, vol II, 1998
Birkhäuser Verlag P.O.Box 133, CH-4010 Basel / Switzerland

Useful links:
European Society for Analytical Cellular Pathology : http://www.esacp.org
Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy : http://www.ssom.ch
Swiss Society of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics: http://www.zmg.ch
Italian Society of Chaos and Complexity (SICC:http://users.iol.it/of/index.html)
Center for Research in Physics and Mathematics (CERFIM:http://www.tinet.ch/cerfim)
Italian Society for Electron Microscopy (SIME:http://www.ime.le.cnr.it/sime/sime.htm)
Chaos at Maryland:http://www.chaos.umd.edu/
Society for Mathematical Biology:http://www.smb.org/
Microscopy Society of America:http://www.msa.microscopy.com/
Swiss Academy of Sciences SAS: http://www.sanw.unibe.ch

Abstracts must not exceed two pages(format A4)including references 
and figures and be submitted to the organizers by e-mail. Submitted abstracts 
will be published in a regular issue of Biology Forum, an international 
multidisciplinary Journal.


  March 3, 2000
 
 			Papers 

- B.Sapoval, M.Filoche, *E.R.Weibel. 
  Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, C.N.R.S. 
  Ecole Polytechnique,91128 Palaiseau, France; Centre de Mathématiques
  et de leurs Applications, Ecole Nornale Supérieure de Cachan, 
  94140 Cachan, France.
  *Department of Anatomy,University of Berne,CH-3000 Bern, Switzerland.
  Acinus morphology and optimal design of mammalian lungs.

- Gabriel Landini.
  Oral Pathology Unit, School of Dentistry, The University of Birmingham,
  St.Chad's Quensway, Birmingham B4 6NN, England.
  Fractals in organogenesis and carcinogenesis: algorithmic pattern formation?

- Laurent Nottale. 
  DEAC. UMR 8631 CNRS. Observatoire de Paris-Meudon. 
  F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France.
  On the possible fractal structure of the evolutionary tree.

- G.P.Pescarmona,*M.Scalerandi, B.Capogrosso,*P.P.Delsanto.
  Dip.Genetica, Biologia e Biochimica,Via Santena 5bis, Università di Torino,
  Torino e *INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica,Politecnico di Torino,10126 Torino.
  Italy.
  A simulation of cancer growth and metastasis based on the limitation 
  of essential nutrients. 

- *P.P.Delsanto,V.Agostini,*B.Capogrosso,*M. Scalerandi,G.B.Pescarmona.  
  Dip.Genetica, Biologia e Biochimica,Via Santena 5bis, Università di Torino,
  Torino e *INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica,Politecnico di Torino,10126 Torino.
  Italy.
  Non-classical,non-linear effects in physics,geophysics and biology.

- *E.Castelli, G.L.Panatton, *T.Todros.
  Dipartimento di Anatomia, Farmacologia e Medicina Legale, Università 
  di Torino, e *Dipartimento di Discipline Ginecologiche e Ostetriche,
  Università di Torino,Torino,Italy.
  Ultrasonographic nuchal translucency and development of the lymphatic 
  system in the fetus: can they be explained by a fractal model?.

- V.Péan,M.Quayoun,C.Fugain,B.Meyer,C.H.Chouard. 
  ENT Research Laboratory,CHU  St-Antoine, 184 rue du Fbg St-Antoine.
  F-75012 Paris, France.
  Fractal approaches of pathological voices.

- M.Quayoun,V.Péan,B.Meyer,C.H.Chouard.
  ENT Research Laboratory, CHU St-Antoine,184 rue du Fbg St-Antoine.
  F-75012 Paris, France.
  A fractal approach of speech vowels.

- David A.Cosandey. Crédit Suisse. Ch-8000 Zürich, Switzerland
  The fractal dimension of the coastline as a determinant of western 
  leadership in science and technology.

- Gionata De Vico,G.Piedimonte,B.Macrì. 
  Dipartimento di Patologia, Malattie infettive e Parassitarie 
  ed Ispezione degli Alimenti di O.A. Sezione di Patologia Generale 
  e Anatomia Patologica Veterinaria, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria,
  Università di Messina, Via S.cecilia 30, 98123 Messina, Italy.
  The fractal dimension of the inner surface of neoplastic mammary ducts 
  in mammary fibroadenomas and mammary adenocarcinomas of dog and cat.

- Francesc Sepulcre Sànchez. 
  Dep. Enginyeria Química,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
  Comte d'Urgell 187, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
  Recognition of malignant mesothelioma cells.

- Antonio Brú. 
  C.I.E.M.A.T, Avenida Complutense,22, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
  Universal scaling of tumor growth.

- Andrei P. Kyrylyuk. 
  Solid State Theory Department, Institute of Metal Physics,
  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 
  prospect Vernadskogo 36,
  Kiev-30, Ukraine 01030.
  The universal dynamic complexity,extended dynamical fractal 
  and its application to living systems.

- Michael Meyer,O.Stiedl, J.Spiess. 
  Department of Physiology, Max Plank Institute for Experimental 
  Medicine, Hermann Rein Str.3, D-37075 Goettingen, Germany.
  Fractal scaling of heart rate dynamics in man and mice
  (normal and transgenic).

- B.Kerman,Michael Meyer.
  Department of Physiology, Max Plank Institute for Experimental 
  Medicine, Hermann Rein Str.3, D-37075 Goettingen, Germany.
  Multi-fractal states of cardiac rhythm.

- Jean Paul Rigaut, Vénus Sharifi-Salamatian. 
  IUH,IFR,Hôpital St.Louis, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux,
  75475 Paris, France.
  Heterogeneity: from asymptotic fractals to geostatistics.

- Bruce J. West. 
  FAPS, Army Research Office, Research Triangle, nc 27709-22111,U.S.A.
  Fractional calculus and memory in biomedical time series.

- Marcello Buiatti, Claudia Acquisti,Giuseppe Mersi,
  Patrizia Bogani, Marco Buiatti.
  Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica. Università di Firenze. 
  Firenze, Italy
  The biological meaning of DNA correlations.

- H.Libouban,M.F.Moreau,E.Legrand,M.F.Baslé,M.Audran,D.Chappard. 
  LHEA: Lab.Histologie Embryologie,Faculty of Medicine,University
  and CHU of Angers, 49033 Angers, France.
  Histomorphometric descriptors of bone architecture (fractal dimension 
  and connectivity indeces) are better predictors of bone loss than mineral 
  density (DXA)in the orchidectomized rat.

- D.Chappard,A.Chennebault,M.F.Moreau,E.Legrand,M.Audran,M.F.Baslé. 
  LHEA: Lab.Histologie Embryologie,Faculty of Medicine, University 
  and CHU of Angers, 49033 Angers, France.
  Texture analysis of X-ray micrographs by fractal geometry are better 
  predictors of bone loss than mineral density (DXA) in a rat model of 
  localized disuse osteopenia.

- E.Oczeretko. 
  Institute of Physics, University of Bialystok, 15-424 Bialystok, Poland.
  Fractal dimension: a new diagnostic parameter in medicine?

- Hiroko Kitaoka.
  Div. of Functional Diagnostic Imaging, Osaka University Medical School,
  Osaka, Japan.
  1.Three-dimensional model of the human airway tree based on a fractal 
  branching algorithm.
  2.Three-dimensional model of the human pulmonary acinus based on a 
  space-filling labyrinthe algorithm.

- Jerzy Konarski.
  Faculty of Chemistry, A.Mickiewicz University, Grunwaldzk 6, 
  60-780 Poznam, Poland.
  Stable and unstable rovibrational states-route to chaos.

- B.Nielsen,F.Albregtsen,H.E.Danielsen.
  Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1080 Blindern,
  N-0136 Oslo, Norway.Division of Digital Pathology,
  The Norvegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, N-0310 Oslo, Norway.
  Using fractal signature and lacunarity distance matrices to extract 
  new adaptive texture freatures from cell nuclei.

- *C.Castelli,**T.F.Nonnenmacher,*°G.A.Losa.
  *Laboratorio di Patologia Cellulare, Istituto di Patologia, 6600 Locarno, 
  °Istituto di Studi Scientifici Interdisciplinari, 66oo Locarno, Switzerland 
  ** Abteilung für Mathematische Physyk, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
  Morphofractal reorganization of plasma membrane and nuclear components 
  during the apoptotic process of breast cancer cells. 
 
- Giuseppe Damiani.
  IDVGA-CNR, via F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate (MI), Italy.
  Power laws, metabolism and evolution.

- Fahima Nekka.
  Faculté de Pharmacie, C.P. 6128, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada
  Lacunarity analysis.

- Przemko Waliszewski.
  Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Poznan,
  Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 Poznan, Poland.
  A relationship between time and space in cellular system 
  with fractal structure.

- Horst K.Hahn, Carl J.G.Evertsz, Hans-Otto Peigen.
  MeVis, Universität Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany.
  Fractal properties, segment anatomy and interdependence 
  of the human portal vein and the hepatic vein in 3D.

- Gerd Baumann(1),Siglinde Kleinschmidt(2),Albrecht K.Kleinschmidt(2).
  (1)Department of Mathematical Physics, University of Ulm, 
  (2) University of Ulm Albert-Einstein-Allee 11,D-89069 Ulm,Germany.
   A headful of T4 Coliphage DNA: dynamical Modelling.

- Torsten Mattfeld °,Hans-Werner Gottfried +,Hans A.Kestler ".
  Institute of Pathology°, Department of Urology +, 
  Department of Neural Information Processing ",
  University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg M23, 
  D-89081 Germany.
  Classification of prostatic cancer using artificial neural networks.

- Nicola Dioguardi, Fabio Grizzi.
  Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Via Manzoni 56,20089 Rozzano(Mi),Italy.
  Fractal dimension exponent for quantitative evaluation 
  of liver collagen in bioptic specimens.

- H.R.Schwarzenbach,M.Essig,J.Prim,J.Tuma, L.Braun.
  Swiss Ultrasound Society (SGUM),6815 Melide,Switzerland.
  Fractal analysis of signal-intensity-variance in liver 
  ultrasound-imaging.

- B.Weyn °*, W.Jacob*, A.Van Daele*, D.Thompson°, H.Bartels°, P.Bartels°.
  °Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,USA 
  *Centre for Electron Microscopy, University of Antwerp(UIA),
  Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium.
  Quantification of nuclear signatures based on geometrical 
  and fractal features.

- Norbert Südland,Christine Volz,Theo F.Nonnenmacher.
  Abteilung für Mathematische Physik, Universität Ulm, 
  Albert-Einstein-Allee 11,D-89069 Ulm, Germany
  A fractional Calculus approach to adsorbate dynamics 
  in nanoporous materials.

- Nicoletta Sala.
  Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland,
  6853 Mendrisio, Switzerland.
  Fractals in architecture: some examples. 

- D.Pascoli*,S.Montagnese°,T.Minelli*,A.Pesavento",
  PG. Marchetti°,P.Amodio°.
  *Dept.of Physics and °Dept.of Clinical and Experimental 
  Medicine,University of Padova,"I Psychiatry,
  General Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy.
  The EEG signal in hepatic encephalopathy:from time-domain 
  analysis towards fractional brownian Processes.

- Carlos Felgueiras
  INEB-Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica
  Praça do Coronel Pacheco,1, 4050 Porto, Portugal.
  Fractal Modeling of film growth on bioactive surface.

- Jürgen.W.Dollinger, Theo.F.Nonnenmacher.
  Department of Mathematical Physics, University of Ulm
  Albert-Eistein-Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm/Donau, Germany
  Bi-asymptotic fractals; Lower and upper bounds.

- A.Piantanelli*,S.Serresi*,A.Giacchetti*,G.Libertini*,
  G.Ricotti*,G.Rossolini°,A.Zaia°,A.Basso°,L.Piantanelli°.
  *Unit of Dermatology-Geriatric Hospital and 
  °Centre of Biochemistry-Gerontologic Research Department; 
  INRCA,Ancona,Italy.
  Estimation of image contour fractal dimension of human 
  pigmented skin lesions.

- Fiorenzo Marinelli.
  Istituto di Citomorfologia C.N.R., Via di Barbiano 1/10, 
  40136 Bologna, Italy
  Fractal analysis of cromatin during apoptosis.

- G.Bianciardi,L.Leoncini,S.Lazzi,A.V.Lalinga, P.Luzi.
  Istituto di Anatomia e Istologia Patologica, 
  Università di Siena, Via delle Scotte 6,53100 Siena, Italy
  Fractal analysis of the bone marrow in refractory anemia 
  and acute leukemia.

- D.Merlini°,L.Rusconi°,A.Bernasconi*
  °Center for Research in Physics and Mathematics (CERFIM /ISSI),
  v.Rusca 1, 6600 Locarno, Switzerland 
  *Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS),6928 Manno,Switzerland
  Chaos and complexity from the Riemann Hypothesis

- Sergio Albeverio.
  Institute for Mathematics and Probability,
  University of Bonn, Bonn,Germany
  Branching processes and biological models.

  






 
  
  
  


  
  














 

 

 

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Dipartimento Istruzione e Cultura /Ufficio Studi Universitari e
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